Solid Waste

Residential Service Commercial Service Automated Garbage Collection Recycling Keep Tyler Beautiful Landfill Hazardous Waste Free Bulky Item Collection Week

Residential Services
Holiday Garbage Collection Schedule

Tyler Solid Waste is the Commercial Division of the City of Tyler Solid Waste Department.

We offer:
96-gallon carts for small businesses
2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 yard dumpsters
20, 30, 40 and 45-yard rolloff containers
30, 35, 40 and 42-yard compactors

History of "Going Automated"
The Solid Waste Department has been exploring the use of automated garbage trucks with garbage carts since 1994 to see if this program would save time and money while still providing excellent customer service. An outstanding majority of customers in the 2003 pilot area thought it was a great program. Since that time more and more customers were renting a garbage cart.

In October 2006, the Tyler City Council recognized that more than half of all solid waste customers were using a cart and approved to convert the entire city to Automated Garbage Collection.

Why Go Automated?
This new system is faster, more efficient and safer for your garbage men because the garbage truck’s mechanical arm picks up your wheeled garbage cart and dumps it. You will receive a 96-gallon cart unless you would like a 65-gallon or 48-gallon cart. Please call our office at 903-531-1388 for a different size.

The 96-gallon cart holds 3 times the size of a garbage can, is more sanitary, provides a place to store trash between collection days, prevents garbage from being scattered by the wind, keeps animals out of your trash and provides a clean, uniform look in your neighborhood.

There is no change in your garbage collection days. Carts will be emptied on Monday and Thursday or Tuesday and Friday depending on your pickup day. Please note that the carts are for household garbage only. Please do not place yard waste in the cart. The cart will be assigned to your address, so if you move please leave the cart.

Tyler Recycling Collection Center	Tyler Curbside Recycling

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Tyler's Greenwood Farms Landfill
(903) 566-5024
12920 Farm to Market Road 2767, "Old Kilgore Highway"
(five miles east of Loop 323)
Tyler, TX
Monday - Friday: 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday: 6:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Sunday: Closed

The landfill is operated by Allied Waste Systems and the land is owned by the City of Tyler.

City of Tyler residents may deposit one 3 cubic yard load (about the size of a pickup truck bed) of garbage per month at no charge by presenting a current original City of Tyler Utility Bill and valid driver’s license that has the same address. Appliances and tires are not included and have special pricing.

Additional deposits of refuse are charged at the posted gate rate which is $7.01 per cubic yard (includes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality fee).

Everyone is required by law to cover their load of refuse during the trip to the landfill. Canvas tarps or heavy plastic covers can be used to hold the refuse in the vehicle and prevent debris from falling out and littering the roadside. If your load is not covered you will face a $25 surcharge at the landfill.

The landfill is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.

Household hazardous waste, in quantities of one gallon or less, may be disposed of as household garbage.

Fluorescent Bulbs should be secured in a plastic bag so if it breaks, the mercury is contained within the bag.
Paint must be dried out before being placed at the curb to prevent the paint from exploding when it is compacted in the garbage truck. It will dry out by pouring two quarts of Oil Dry Absorbent or Kitty Litter into a half gallon of paint. Stir with a stick and leave the top off to allow it to dry. When you can hold the can upside down and no paint pours out, then it is ready to go in your trash. Oil dry is available at any grocery store, discount store or auto supply store. It is also available in one gallon baggies at the Tyler Recycling Collection Center.
Liquids should be placed separate from the rest of your garbage, so that our crews will be aware that they are picking up household chemicals.
Car batteries may be left on the curb on your garbage day and they will be picked up and recycled.
Rechargable batteries can be taken to Batteries Plus, located 4906 Broadway Ave. and recycled for free.
Motor Oil that is less than five gallons from non-commercial users can be taken to any auto service shop at no charge to you.

To avoid excessive household hazardous waste, residents are asked to use safer alternatives and to purchase only amounts needed

Hazardous Waste Alternatives

Instead of: Try Using:

Oven Cleaners Baking soda, water and steel wood pads

Disinfectants A quarter to a half cup of borax in a gallon of water

Drain
Cleaners Boiling water, a half cup of baking soda
and two oz.of vinegar with a snake or plunger

Rug/Upholstry
Cleaner Apply baking soda and then vacuum

Toilet Cleaner Baking soda and a mild detergent

Mothballs Cedar, lavender, flowers or newspaper

FREE Bulky Item Collection Weeks
Residential customers may get rid of bulky items such as unwanted furniture, appliances, carpet, fence material, up to four noncommercial vehicle tires, old toys and other large items that would normally require a special fee for FREE. Brush is not included.
Dates are as follows:
If your garbage is picked up on Monday and Thursday, your free bulky item week is Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 2009
If your garbage is picked up on Tuesday and Friday, your free bulky item week is Oct. 5-9, 2009
Bulky items will also be accepted from 7 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Oct. 3 and Saturday, Oct. 10 in the City of Tyler employee parking lot in the 300 block of North Bois D’Arc Avenue in downtown Tyler.

Bulky items that will be picked up for FREE include:

Furniture and Mattresses
Appliances and Electronics
Carpet
Fence Material
Up to 4 Noncommercial Vehicle Tires
Car Batteries
Old Toys

Other large items that would normally require a special fee.

Paint must be dried out with oil dry or kitty litter.

Brush and liquid waste are NOT accepted.